Combined dish washer and holder.



Patented Oct. 18,1910.

N. M. RICHARDSON COMBINED DISH WASHER AND HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1910.

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NANCY M. RICHARDSON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED DISH WASHER AND HOLDER.

i Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Application led July 27,` 1910. Serial No. 574,178.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, NANCY M. RICHARD- soN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and Stateof California, have invented a new and useful Combined Dish Washer andHolder, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of the present invention is to provide means wherebydishes can be quickly and conveniently washed with a minimum of handlingof the dishes and hot water.

Another object of the invention is .to provide a means for holding thedishes while they are being inserted in the water and washed and whilethey are being rinsed and drained.

Other-objects of the invention will appear hereinafter.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention, and referringthereto Figure l is a vertical section of the device in place in thedish pan. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the dish holder. Fig. 3 is aperspective of a central cylinder used for distributing or circulatingthe water and mixing the soap therewith, the cap for said cylinder beingshown as separated therefrom. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the plunger foroperation in said cylinder.

The invention comprises a holder or basket l adapted to be placed in anordinary dish pan indicated at 2, a cylinder 3 having a base plate 4adapted to rest on the bottom of said holder or basket, and a plunger 5adapted to work in said cylinder.

The holder or basket l may be made of wire with bottom 7 and sideportion 8, the said basket being preferably frusto-conical with its sideportion iiaring upwardly to conform more or less to the shape of thedish pan 2 and the bottom and side portion of said holder or basketbeing of open-work or perforate to allow free passage of watertherethrough. For this purpose the basket 1 may be made with upper andlower rings 10 and 11 connected by side bars 12, wire netting, indicatedat 13, being stretched across the bottom and around the side portion ofthe basket. Handles 14 may be provided for the basket whereby it may beconveniently deposited in and removed from the dish pan 2.

The cylinder 3, which may be of sheet metal, is secured at its lower endto the bottom plate 4 which is disk-shaped to correspond with the bottom7 of the holder l, said bottom plate extending inwardly at the bottom ofthe cylinder and having an opening 15 for passage ofwater from the lowerpart of the cylinder on the bottom plate 4 and the side wall of thecylinder is perforated as at 16 for passage of water from the cylinderinto the surrounding body of fluid', and Vice versa.

The plunger 5 isv adapted to move with a sliding it in the interior ofthe cylinder 3 and is provided with a handle 18 extending verticallysome distance above the top of the cylinder 3, said cylinder having aclosurecap 19 at the top provided with a central opening 20 for thepassage of said handle.

The device is used as follows: The holder or basket l being placed on asuitable support and the cylinder 3 being placed in position therein,the dishes are deposited in the holder around the cylinder 3 and theholder is then lowered into the dish pan 2, water being placed in thepan before or after the holder with the dishes is placed therein, andsoap being placed in thecylinder 3, or elsewhere in the pan as may bedesired. By then working the plunger 5 up and down, the water is'circulated back and forth between the cylinder and thesurroundingportion of the fiuid and between the lower part of the cylinder and thebottom part of the pan, so that thorough circulation and agitation ofthe water in Contact with the dishes and the soap is effected. The barsl2 of the holder being bent around the lower ring 11, support the bottomof the holder above the bottom of the dish pan so as to allow freemovement of water between said parts. When the dishes have been cleanedby this means, the holder may be removed from the dish pan and thedishes rinsed by pouring water thereover and the dishes may then beallowed to drain while still supported in the holder, the same holderserving for washing, rinsing and draining, with only one handling of thedishes in placing them into the holder and one handling in removing themfrom the holder.

What I claim is The combination of a holder having openings in its sideand bottom portions, a cylinder provided with a bottom plate resting onthe bottom of said holder and having an my hand at Los Angeles,California, this opening at the bottom of the cylinder, the 20th day ofJuly 1910.

side wall of said cylinder being perforated and a. plunger movablymounted in the cylj NANCY M'LRIGHARDSGN 5 inder toat as a piston thereinand pro- In presence of vided with a. handle. G. T. HACKLEY,

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set ISABEL HALL.

